Award-winning Appalachian poet, memoirist, and teacher Pauletta Hansel reads from her latest book of poetry-Will There Also Be Singing?
Cheri Lawson attended the poetry reading in Northern Kentucky and sat down for a conversation with the poet.
It’s a Thursday evening in a northern Kentucky bookstore. Appalachian writer and poet Pauletta Hansel captures the attention of a room full of people as she reads from her latest book, Will There Also Be Singing? She begins with a poem called Aerial View of Catastrophic Flooding in Eastern Kentucky. She said it was taken from Facebook posts of flood survivors, as they lived through the flood in the summer of 2022.
